This is FYI - it was an issue that came up when someone (not me!) had an 8500 line Java source file. He got a "code too large for try statement" exception during compilation, which puzzled even some long term Java programmers.
Apparently, there is an upper limit of 64K (compiled) on java methods. (see http://java.sun.com/docs/books/vmspec/2nd-edition/html/ClassFile.doc.html#154) The Java method bytecode code length is defined as an int (32-bit), but exception start/end blocks are defined by shorts (16-bit). This limits the method length to 2^16=64K. Hopefully, noone on this list will ever write a class that large, but in case you ever run across this.. -- Becky Norum Database Administrator Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS) Northeastern University http://www.censsis.neu.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
